Three Thumb Rings.

[Dennis]

One of my clients has discovered thumb rings, so I made these three out of sterling to give her a choice of designs.

The first is filigree with leaf shapes and tube set red crystals. The leaf shapes were soldered in while flat, but the tubes were added on a ceramic soldering cone after bending.

Wire for borders and shanks, 1.3mm round. Wire for leaves 0.7mm flattened.

The next is a flat ring with a bezel set amethyst and two citrines. Small oval bezels can be tough to set, so I used my Dremel engraver with the tip reversed as a mechanical hammer.

Roll textured back plate 0.7mm. Wire for rims, 1.2mm sterling.
Bezel strip 0.45mm fine silver, made from rolled down round wire.

The last is a flush set ring made from oval wire, using 6x 2.2mm black diamonds and 6x 2.0mm white diamonds. I was way out of my comfort zone for this one, as I don’t have a microscope, just a 6x magnification headband and my eyes were tiring rather quickly.

Drawn down sterling oval wire, 2.4x 4.5mm. Dennis.